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- This application also claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §120 as a continuation-in-part (CIP) of U.S. Non-provisional application Ser. No. 09/971,367, filed Oct. 4, 2001, entitled “Multicolored LED Lighting Method and Apparatus,” which is a continuation of U.S. Non-provisional application Ser. No. 09/669,121, filed Sep. 25, 2000, entitled “Multicolored LED Lighting Method and Apparatus,” which is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 09/425,770, filed Oct. 22, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,150,774, which is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 08/920,156, filed Aug. 26, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,016,038.
- This application also claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §120 as a continuation-in-part (CIP) of the following U.S. Non-provisional Applications: Serial No. yet to be assigned, attorney docket number 70102 filed Jun. 5, 2002, entitled “Systems and Methods of Generating Control Signals;” Ser. No. 09/870,193, filed May 30, 2001, entitled “Methods and Apparatus for Controlling Devices in a Networked Lighting System;” Ser. No. 09/215,624, filed Dec. 17, 1998, entitled “Smart Light Bulb;” Ser. No. 09/213,607, filed Dec. 17, 1998, entitled “Systems and Methods for Sensor-Responsive Illumination;” Ser. No. 09/213,189, filed Dec. 17, 1998, entitled “Precision Illumination;” Ser. No. 09/213,581, filed Dec. 17, 1998, entitled “Kinetic Illumination;” Ser. No. 09/213,540, filed Dec. 17, 1998, entitled “Data Delivery Track;” Ser. No. 09/333,739, filed Jun. 15, 1999, entitled “Diffuse Illumination Systems and Methods;” Ser. No. 09/815,418, filed Mar. 22, 2001, entitled “Lighting Entertainment System,” which is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 09/213,548, filed Dec. 17, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,166,496; Serial No. 10/045,604, filed Oct. 23, 2001, entitled “Systems and Methods for Digital Entertainment;” Ser. No. 09/989,095, filed Nov. 20, 2001, entitled “Automotive Information Systems:” Ser. No. 09/989,747, filed Nov. 20, 2001, entitled “Packaged Information Systems;” and Ser. No. 09/989,677, filed Nov. 20, 2001, entitled “Information Systems.”
- This patent application claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) of the following U.S. Provisional Applications: Serial No. 60/297,828, filed Jun. 3, 2001, entitled “Systems and Methods for Controlling Lighting Systems;” Serial No. 60/312,456, filed Aug. 15, 2001, entitled “Systems and Methods for Controlling Lighting Systems;” Serial No. 60/296,344, filed Jun. 6, 2001, entitled “Systems and Methods of Generating Control Signals”; Serial No. 60/301,692, filed Jun. 28, 2001, entitled “Systems and Methods for Networking LED Lighting Systems”; Serial No. 60/328,867, filed Oct. 12, 2001, entitled “Systems and Methods for Networking LED Lighting Systems;” and Serial No. 60/341,476, filed Oct. 30, 2001, entitled “Systems and Methods for LED Lighting.”
- This application also claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §120 of each of the following U.S. Provisional Applications, as at least one of the above-identified U.S. Non-provisional Applications similarly is entitled to the benefit of at least one of the following Provisional Applications: Serial No. 60/071,281, filed Dec. 17, 1997, entitled “Digitally Controlled Light Emitting Diodes Systems and Methods;” Serial No. 60/068,792, filed Dec. 24, 1997, entitled “Multi-Color Intelligent Lighting;” Serial No. 60/078,861, filed Mar. 20, 1998, entitled “Digital Lighting Systems;” Serial No. 60/079,285, filed Mar. 25, 1998, entitled “System and Method for Controlled Illumination;” Serial No. 60/090,920, filed Jun. 26, 1998, entitled “Methods for Software Driven Generation of Multiple Simultaneous High Speed Pulse Width Modulated Signals;” Serial No. 60/277,911, filed Mar. 22, 2001, entitled “Systems and Methods for Digital Entertainment;” Serial No. 60/242,484, filed Oct. 23, 2000, entitled, “Systems and Methods for Digital Entertainment;” Serial No. 60/252,004, filed Nov. 20, 2000, entitled, “Intelligent Indicators;” Serial No. 60/262,022, filed Jan. 16, 2001, entitled, “Color Changing LCD Screens;” Serial No. 60/262,153, filed Jan. 17, 2001, entitled, “Information Systems;” Serial No. 60/268,259, filed Feb. 13, 2001, entitled, “LED Based Lighting Systems for Vehicals;” and Serial No. 60/296,219, filed Jun. 6, 2001, entitled, “Systems and Methods for Displaying Information.”
- Each of the foregoing applications is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
- The present invention relates to lighting systems, and more particularly, embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and apparatus for controlling various light sources.
- Networked lighting control has become increasingly popular due to the variety of illumination conditions that can be created. Color Kinetics Incorporated offers a full line of networked lighting systems as well as controllers and light-show authoring tools. Control signals for lighting systems are generally generated and communicated through a network to a plurality of lighting systems. Several lighting systems may be arranged in a lighting network and information pertaining to each lighting device may be communicated to through the network. Each lighting device or system may have a unique identifier or address such that it only reads and react to information directed at its particular address.
- Provided herein are methods and systems for generating a control signal for a light system. The methods and systems include facilities for providing a light management facility for mapping the positions of a plurality of light systems, generating a map file that maps the positions of a plurality of light systems, generating an effect using a computer application, associating characteristics of the light systems with code for the computer application, and generating a lighting control signal to control the light systems.
- Provided herein are methods and systems for controlling a light system. The methods and systems may include providing graphical information; associating a plurality of addressable light systems with locations in an environment; and converting the graphical information to control signals capable of controlling the light systems to illuminate the environment in correspondence to the graphical information.
- Provided herein are methods and systems for controlling a light system. The methods and systems may include accessing a set of information for producing a graphic; associating a plurality of addressable light systems with locations in an environment; and applying an algorithm to the graphical information to convert the graphical information to control signals capable of controlling the light systems to create an effect in the environment in correspondence to the graphical information.
- Provided herein are methods and systems for generating a lighting effect in an environment. The methods and systems may include generating an image using a non-lighting system; associating a plurality of light systems with positions in an environment; and using the association of the light systems and positions to convert the image into control signals for a light system, wherein the light system generates an effect that corresponds to the image.
- Provided herein are methods and systems for generating a control signal for a light system. The methods and systems may include providing a light management facility for mapping the positions of a plurality of light systems; using the light management facility to generate map files that map the positions of a plurality of light systems; using an animation facility to generate a plurality of graphics files; associating the positions of the light systems in the map files with data in the graphics files; and generating a lighting control signal to control the light systems in association with the graphics files.
- Provided herein are methods and systems for controlling a lighting system. The methods and systems may include obtaining a lighting control signal for a plurality of light systems in an environment; obtaining a graphics signal from a computer; and modifying the lighting control signal in response to the content of the graphics signal.
- The present invention eliminates many of the problems associated with the prior art. An embodiment of the invention is a system for generating control signals. The system may allow a user to generate an image, representation of an image, algorithm or other effect information. The effect information may then be converted to lighting control signals to be saved or communicated to a networked lighting system. An embodiment of the invention may enable the authoring, generation and communication of control signals such that an effect is generated in a space or area.
- A system according to the principles of the invention may include the generation of image information and conversion of the image information to control signals capable of controlling a networked lighting system. In an embodiment, configuration information may be generated identifying a plurality of addressable lighting systems with locations within an area or space. In an embodiment, configuration information may be generated associated lighted surfaces with lighting systems. In an embodiment, control signals may be communicated to a lighting network comprising a plurality of addressed lighting systems. In an embodiment, sound or other effects may be coordinated with lighting control signals.
- An embodiment of the present invention is a system and method for controlling a plurality of light systems. The system and method may include providing a plurality of light systems adapted to receive wireless communications; providing a transmitter adapted to transmit wireless communication signals; transmitting a lighting control signal from the transmitter to the plurality of light systems; and changing a light effect generated by at least one of the plurality of light systems in response to the lighting control signal.
- An embodiment of the present invention is a system and method for controlling a plurality of light systems. The system and method may include providing a plurality of light systems wherein each of the plurality of light systems is adapted to execute a program at a predetermined time; assembling the plurality in an environment; executing the program in each of the light systems at the predetermined time to provide a lighting effect from each of the light systems in the plurality of light systems.
- An embodiment of the present invention is a system and method of communicating with a lighting device. The system and method may include providing a mobile light system adapted to receive communication signals; and communicating with the light system to cause the light system to generate a lighting effect.
- An embodiment of the present invention is a light system. The light system may include a color changing light system adapted to receive wireless communications and generate a color in response to a received communication.
- An embodiment of the present invention is a lighting control system. The lighting control system may include a controller adapted to generate a first lighting control signal; and a wireless transmitter adapted to transmit the first lighting control signal to a light system.
- The following figures depict certain illustrative embodiments of the invention in which like reference numerals refer to like elements. These depicted embodiments are to be understood as illustrative of the invention and not as limiting in any way.
- FIG. 1 is a representation of an environment in which a plurality of light systems are disposed.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing control of a plurality of lights using a group of control elements.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing elements for generating a lighting control signal using a configuration facility and a graphical representation facility.
- FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing elements for generating a lighting control signal from an animation facility and light management facility.
- FIG. 5 illustrates a configuration file for data relating to light systems in an environment.
- FIG. 6 illustrates a virtual representation of an environment using a computer screen.
- FIG. 7 is a representation of an environment with light systems that project light onto portions of the environment.
- FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram showing the propagation of an effect through a light system.
- FIG. 9 is a flow diagram showing steps for using an image capture device to determine the positions of a plurality of light systems in an environment.
- FIG. 10 is a flow diagram showing steps for interacting with a graphical user interface to generate a lighting effect in an environment.
- FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram depicting light systems that transmit data that is generated by a network transmitter.
- FIG. 12 is a flow diagram showing steps for generating a control signal for a light system using an object-oriented programming technique.
- FIG. 13 is a flow diagram for executing a thread to generate a lighting signal for a real world light system based on data from a computer application.
- FIG. 14 illustrates a lighting system according to the principles of the present invention.
- FIG. 15 illustrates a lighting system according to the principles of the present
- FIG. 16 illustrates a lighting system according to the principles of the present invention including stadium seating and an image generated in the seating area.
- FIG. 17 illustrates a stadium lighting control system according to the principles of the present invention.
- FIG. 18 illustrates a stadium lighting effect according to the principles of the present invention.
- The description below pertains to several illustrative embodiments of the invention. Although many variations of the invention may be envisioned by one skilled in the art, such variations and improvements are intended to fall within the compass of this disclosure. Thus, the scope of the invention is not to be limited in any way by the disclosure below.
- An embodiment of this invention relates to systems and methods for generating control signals. The control signals may be used to control a lighting system, lighting network, light, LED, LED lighting system, audio system, surround sound system, fog machine, rain machine, electromechanical system or other systems. Lighting systems like those described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,016,038, 6,150,774, and 6,166,496 illustrate some different types of lighting systems where control signals may be used.
- To provide an overall understanding of the invention, certain illustrative embodiments will now be described, including various applications for programmable lights and lighting systems, including LED-based systems. However, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the methods and systems described herein may be suitably adapted to other environments where programmable lighting may be desired, and embodiments described herein may be suitable to non-LED based lighting. One of skill in the art would also understand that the embodiments described below could be used in conjunction with any type of computer software that need not be an authoring tool for lighting control systems, but of various other types of computer application. Further, the user need not be operating a computer, but could be operating any type of computing device, capable of running a software application that is providing that user with information.
- In certain computer applications, there is typically a display screen (which could be a personal computer screen, television screen, laptop screen, handheld, gameboy screen, computer monitor, flat screen display, LCD display, PDA screen, or other display) that represents a virtual environment of some type. There is also typically a user in a real world environment that surrounds the display screen. The present invention relates, among other things, to using a computer application in a virtual environment to generate control signals for systems, such as lighting systems, that are located in real world environments.
- Referring to FIG. 1, in an embodiment of the invention described herein, an
environment 100 includes one or morelight systems 102. As used herein “light systems” should be understood where context is appropriate to comprise all light systems, including LED systems, as well as incandescent sources, including filament lamps, pyro-luminescent sources, such as flames, candle-luminescent sources, such as gas mantles and carbon arc radiation sources, as well as photo-luminescent sources, including gaseous discharges, fluorescent sources, phosphorescence sources, lasers, electro-luminescent sources, such as electro-luminescent lamps, light emitting diodes, and cathode luminescent sources using electronic satiation, as well as miscellaneous luminescent sources including galvano-luminescent sources, crystallo-luminescent sources, kine-luminescent sources, thermo-luminescent sources, triboluminescent sources, sonoluminescent sources, and radioluminescent sources.Light systems 102 may also include luminescent polymers capable of producing colors, such as primary colors. In one preferred embodiment, thelight systems 102 are LED-based light systems. In one preferred embodiment, thelight systems 102 are capable of mixing two colors of light, which might be red, green, blue, white, amber, or other colors of light. In one embodiment, the colors of lights may be different colors of white light, i.e., white lights of different color temperatures. - As used herein, the term “LED” means any system that is capable of receiving an electrical signal and producing a color of light in response to the signal. Thus, the term “LED” should be understood to include light emitting diodes of all types, light emitting polymers, semiconductor dies that produce light in response to current, organic LEDs, electro-luminescent strips, and other such systems. In an embodiment, an “LED” may refer to a single light emitting diode having multiple semiconductor dies that are individually controlled. It should also be understood that the term “LED” does not restrict the package type of the LED. The term “LED” includes packaged LEDs, non-packaged LEDs, surface mount LEDs, chip on board LEDs and LEDs of all other configurations. The term “LED” also includes LEDs packaged or associated with phosphor wherein the phosphor may convert energy from the LED to a different wavelength. An LED system is one type of illumination source.
- The term “illuminate” should be understood to refer to the production of a frequency of radiation by an illumination source. The terms “light” and “color” should be understood where context is appropriate to refer to any frequency of radiation within a spectrum; that is, a “color” of “light,” as used herein, should be understood to encompass a frequency or combination of frequencies not only of the visible spectrum, including white light, but also frequencies in the infrared and ultraviolet areas of the spectrum, and in other areas of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating one embodiment of a
lighting system 200. Aprocessor 204 is associatedseveral lights 208. The processor sends control signals to thelights 208. Such a system may optionally have one or more intermediate components between the processor and thelights 208, such as one or more controllers, transistors, or the like. - As used herein, the term processor may refer to any system for processing electronic signals. A processor may include a microprocessor, microcontroller, programmable digital signal processor, other programmable device, a controller, addressable controller, microprocessor, microcontroller, addressable microprocessor, computer, programmable processor, programmable controller, dedicated processor, dedicated controller, integrated circuit, control circuit or other processor. A processor may also, or instead, include an application specific integrated circuit, a programmable gate array, programmable array logic, a programmable logic device, a digital signal processor, an analog-to-digital converter, a digital-to-analog converter, or any other device that may be configured to process electronic signals. In addition, a processor may include discrete circuitry such as passive or active analog components including resistors, capacitors, inductors, transistors, operational amplifiers, and so forth, as well as discrete digital components such as logic components, shift registers, latches, or any other separately packaged chip or other component for realizing a digital function. Any combination of the above circuits and components, whether packaged discretely, as a chip, as a chipset, or as a die, may be suitably adapted to use as a processor as described herein. It will further be appreciated that the term processor may apply to an integrated system, such as a personal computer, network server, or other system that may operate autonomously or in response to commands to process electronic signals such as those described herein. Where a processor includes a programmable device such as the microprocessor or microcontroller mentioned above, the processor may further include computer executable code that controls operation of the programmable device. In an embodiment, the
processor 204 is a Microchip PIC processor 12C672 and thelights 208 are LEDs, such as red, green and blue LEDs. - The
processor 204 may optionally include or be used in association with various other components and control elements (not shown), such as a pulse width modulator, pulse amplitude modulator, pulse displacement modulator, resistor ladder, current source, voltage source, voltage ladder, switch, transistor, voltage controller, or other controller. The control elements andprocessor 204 can control current, voltage and/or power through thelights 208. - In an embodiment, several LEDs with different spectral output may be used as
lights 208. Each of these colors may be driven through separate channels of control. Theprocessor 204 and controller may be incorporated into one device. This device may power capabilities to drive several LEDs in a string or it may only be able to support one or a few LEDs directly. Theprocessor 204 and controller may also be separate devices. By controlling the LEDs independently, color mixing can be achieved for the creation of lighting effects. - In an embodiment,
memory 210 may also be provided. Thememory 210 is capable of storing algorithms, tables, or values associated with the control signals. Thememory 210 may store programs for controlling theprocessor 204, other components, and lights 208. Thememory 210 may be memory, read-only memory, programmable memory, programmable read-only memory, electronically erasable programmable read-only memory, random access memory, dynamic random access memory, double data rate random access memory, Rambus direct random access memory, flash memory, or any other volatile or non-volatile memory for storing program instructions, program data, address information, and program output or other intermediate or final results. - A program, for example, may store control signals to operate several different
colored lights 208. Auser interface 202 may also optionally be associated with theprocessor 204. Theuser interface 202 may be used to select a program from memory, modify a program from memory, modify a program parameter from memory, select an external signal or provide other user interface solutions. Several methods of color mixing and pulse width modulation control are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,016,038 “Multicolored LED Lighting Method and Apparatus,” the entire disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein. Theprocessor 204 can also be addressable to receive programming signals addressed to it. For example, aprocessor 204 can receive a stream of data (or lighting control signals) that includes data elements for multiple similar processors or other devices, and theprocessor 204 can extract from the stream the appropriate data elements that are addressed to it. In an embodiment, the user interface can include an authoring system for generating a lighting control signal, such as described in more detail below. - There have been significant advances in the control of LEDs. U.S. Patents in the field of LED control include U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,016,038, 6,150,774, and 6,166,496. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/716,819 for “Systems and Methods for Generating and Modulating Illumination Conditions” also describes, among other things, systems and controls. The entire disclosure of all these documents is herein incorporated by reference.
- In embodiments of the invention, the lighting system may be used to illuminate an environment. On
such environment 100 is shown in FIG. 1. The environment has at least onelight system 102 mounted therein, and in a preferred embodiment may have multiplelight systems 102 therein. Thelight system 102 may be acontrollable light system 102, such as described above in connection with FIG. 2, withlights 208 that illuminate portions of theenvironment 100. - Generally the
light systems 102 can be mounted in a manner that a viewer in theenvironment 100 can see either the illumination projected by alight system 102 directly, or the viewer sees the illumination indirectly, such as after the illumination bounces off a surface, or through a lens, filter, optic, housing, screen, or similar element that is designed to reflect, diffuse, refract, diffract, or otherwise affect the illumination from thelight system 102. - The
light systems 102 in combination comprise a lighting or illumination system. The lighting system may be in communication with a control system orother user interface 202, such as a computer, by any manner known to one of skill in the art which can include, but is not limited to: wired connections, cable connections, infrared (IR) connections, radio frequency (RF) connections, any other type of connection, or any combination of the above. - Various control systems can be used to generate lighting control signals, as described below. In one embodiment, control may be passed to the lighting system via a video-to-DMX device, which provides a simple way of generating the lighting signal. Such a device may have a video-in port and a pass-through video-out port. The device may also have a lighting signal port where the DMX, or other protocol data, is communicated to the lights in the room. The device may apply an algorithm to the received video signal (e.g. average, average of a given section or time period, max, min) and then generate a lighting signal corresponding to the algorithm output. For example, the device may average the signal over the period of one second with a resultant value equal to blue light. The device may then generate blue light signals and communicate them to the lighting system. In an embodiment, a simple system would communicate the same averaged signal to all of the lights in the room, but a variant would be to communicate the average of a portion of the signal to one portion of the room. There are many ways of partitioning the video signal, and algorithms could be applied to the various sections of the light system, thus providing different inputs based on the same video signal.
- Referring still to FIG. 1, the
environment 100 may include asurface 107 that is lit by one ormore lighting systems 102. In the depicted embodiment thesurface 107 comprises a wall or other surface upon which light could be reflected. In another embodiment, the surface could be designed to absorb and retransmit light, possibly at a different frequency. For instance thesurface 107 could be a screen coated with a phosphor where illumination of a particular color could be projected on the screen and the screen could convert the color of the illumination and provide a different color of illumination to a viewer in theenvironment 100. For instance the projected illumination could primarily be in the blue, violet or ultraviolet range while the transmitted light is more of a white. In embodiments, thesurface 107 may also include one or more colors, figures, lines, designs, figures, pictures, photographs, textures, shapes or other visual or graphical elements that can be illuminated by the lighting system. The elements on the surface can be created by textures, materials, coatings, painting, dyes, pigments, coverings, fabrics, or other methods or mechanisms for rendering graphical or visual effects. In embodiments, changing the illumination from the lighting system may create visual effects. For example, a picture on thesurface 107 may fade or disappear, or become more apparent or reappear, based on the color of the light from the lighting system that is rendered on thesurface 107. Thus, effects can be created on thesurface 107 not only by shining light on a plain surface, but also through the interaction of light with the visual or graphical elements on the surface. - In certain preferred embodiments, the
light systems 102 are networked lighting systems where the lighting control signals are packaged into packets of addressed information. The addressed information may then be communicated to the lighting systems in the lighting network. Each of the lighting systems may then respond to the control signals that are addressed to the particular lighting system. This is an extremely useful arrangement for generating and coordinating lighting effects in across several lighting systems. Embodiments of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/616,214 “Systems and Methods for Authoring Lighting Sequences” describe systems and methods for generating system control signals and is herby incorporated by reference herein. - A lighting system, or other system according to the principles of the present invention, may be associated with an addressable controller. The addressable controller may be arranged to “listen” to network information until it “hears” its address. Once the systems address is identified, the system may read and respond to the information in a data packet that is assigned to the address. For example, a lighting system may include an addressable controller. The addressable controller may also include an alterable address and a user may set the address of the system. The lighting system may be connected to a network where network information is communicated. The network may be used to communicate information to many controlled systems such as a plurality of lighting systems for example. In such an arrangement, each of the plurality of lighting systems may be receiving information pertaining to more than one lighting system. The information may be in the form of a bit stream where information for a first addressed lighting system is followed by information directed at a second addressed lighting system. An example of such a lighting system can be found in U.S. Pat. No. 6,016,038, which is herby incorporated by reference herein.
- Referring to FIG. 11, in one embodiment of a networked lighting system according to the principles of the invention, a
network transmitter 1102 communicates network information to thelight systems 102. In such an embodiment, thelight systems 102 can include aninput port 1104 and anexport port 1108. The network information may be communicated to thefirst light system 102 and thefirst light system 102 may read the information that is addressed to it and pass the remaining portion of the information on to the nextlight system 102. A person with ordinary skill in the art would appreciate that there are other network topologies that are encompassed by a system according to the principles of the present invention. - In an embodiment, the
light system 102 is placed in areal world environment 100. Thereal world environment 100 could be a room. The lighting system could be arranged, for example, to light the walls, ceiling, floor or other sections or objects in a room, orparticular surfaces 107 of the room. The lighting system may include several addressablelight systems 102 with individual addresses. The illumination can be projected so as to be visible to a viewer in the room either directly or indirectly. That is a light 208 of alight system 102 could shine so that the light is projected to the viewer without reflection, or could be reflected, refracted, absorbed and reemitted, or in any other manner indirectly presented to the viewer. - An embodiment of the present invention describes a method for generating control signals as illustrated in the block diagram in FIG. 3. The method may involve providing or generating an image or representation of an image, i.e., a
graphical representation 302. The graphical representation may be a static image such as a drawing, photograph, generated image, or image that is or appears to be static. The static image may include images displayed on a computer screen or other screen even though the image is continually being refreshed on the screen. The static image may also be a hard copy of an image. - Providing a
graphical representation 302 may also involve generating an image or representation of an image. For example, a processor may be used to execute software to generate thegraphical representation 302. Again, the image that is generated may be or appear to be static or the image may be dynamic. An example of software used to generate a dynamic image is Flash 5 computer software offered by Macromedia, Incorporated. Flash 5 is a widely used computer program to generate graphics, images and animations. Other useful products used to generate images include, for example, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe LiveMotion. There are many other programs that can be used to generate both static and dynamic images. For example, Microsoft Corporation makes a computer program Paint. This software is used to generate images on a screen in a bit map format. Other software programs may be used to generate images in bitmaps, vector coordinates, or other techniques. There are also many programs that render graphics in three dimensions or more. Direct X libraries, from Microsoft Corporation, for example generate images in three-dimensional space. The output of any of the foregoing software programs or similar programs can serve as thegraphical representation 302. - In embodiments the
graphical representation 302 may be generated using software executed on a processor but thegraphical representation 302 may never be displayed on a screen. In an embodiment, an algorithm may generate an image or representation therof, such as an explosion in a room for example. The explosion function may generate an image and this image may be used to generate control signals as described herein with or without actually displaying the image on a screen. The image may be displayed through a lighting network for example without ever being displayed on a screen. - In an embodiment, generating or representing an image may be accomplished through a program that is executed on a processor. In an embodiment, the purpose of generating the image or representation of the image may be to provide information defined in a space. For example, the generation of an image may define how a lighting effect travels through a room. The lighting effect may represent an explosion, for example. The representation may initiate bright white light in the corner of a room and the light may travel away from this corner of the room at a velocity (with speed and direction) and the color of the light may change as the propagation of the effect continues. An illustration of an
environment 100 showingvectors 104 demonstrating the velocity of certain lighting effects is illustrated in FIG. 1. In an embodiment, an image generator may generate a function or algorithm. The function or algorithm may represent an event such as an explosion, lighting strike, headlights, train passing through a room, bullet shot through a room, light moving through a room, sunrise across a room, or other event. The function or algorithm may represent an image such as lights swirling in a room, balls of light bouncing in a room, sounds bouncing in a room, or other images. The function or algorithm may also represent randomly generated effects or other effects. - Referring again to FIG. 3, a light
system configuration facility 304 may accomplish further steps for the methods and systems described herein. The light system configuration facility may generate a system configuration file, configuration data or other configuration information for a lighting system, such as the one depicted in connection with FIG. 1. - The light system configuration facility can represent or correlate a system, such as a
light system 102, sound system or other system as described herein with a position or positions in theenvironment 100. For example, anLED light system 102 may be correlated with a position within a room. In an embodiment, the location of alighted surface 107 may also be determined for inclusion into the configuration file. The position of the lighted surface may also be associated with alight system 102. In embodiments, the lightedsurface 107 may be the desired parameter while thelight system 102 that generates the light to illuminate the surface is also important. Lighting control signals may be communicated to alight system 102 when a surface is scheduled to be lit by thelight system 102. For example, control signals may be communicated to a lighting system when a generated image calls for a particular section of a room to change in hue, saturation or brightness. In this situation, the control signals may be used to control the lighting system such that the lightedsurface 107 is illuminated at the proper time. The lightedsurface 107 may be located on a wall but thelight system 102 designed to project light onto thesurface 107 may be located on the ceiling. The configuration information could be arranged to initiate thelight system 102 to activate or change when thesurface 107 is to be lit. - Referring still to FIG. 3, the
graphical representation 302 and the configuration information from the lightsystem configuration facility 304 can be delivered to a conversion module 308, which associates position information from the configuration facility with information from the graphical representation and converts the information into a control signal, such as a control signal for alight system 102. Then the conversion module can communicate the control signal, such as to thelight system 102. In embodiments the conversion module maps positions in the graphical representation to positions oflight systems 102 in the environment, as stored in a configuration file for the environment (as described below). The mapping might be a one-to-one mapping of pixels or groups of pixels in the graphical representation tolight systems 102 or groups oflight systems 102 in theenvironment 100. It could be a mapping of pixels in the graphical representation tosurfaces 107, polygons, or objects in the environment that are lit bylight systems 102. It could be a mapping of vector coordinate information, a wave function, or algorithm to positions oflight systems 102. Many different mapping relations can be envisioned and are encompassed herein. - Referring to FIG. 4, another embodiment of a block diagram for a method and system for generating a control signal is depicted. A
light management facility 402 is used to generate amap file 404 that mapslight systems 102 to positions in an environment, to surfaces that are lit by the light systems, and the like. Ananimation facility 408 generates a sequence of graphics files for an animation effect. Aconversion module 412 relates the information in themap file 404 for thelight systems 102 to the graphical information in the graphics files. For example, color information in the graphics file may be used to convert to a color control signal for a light system to generate a similar color. Pixel information for the graphics file may be converted to address information for light systems which will correspond to the pixels in question. In embodiments, theconversion module 412 includes a lookup table for converting particular graphics file information into particular lighting control signals, based on the content of a configuration file for the lighting system and conversion algorithms appropriate for the animation facility in question. The converted information can be sent to aplayback tool 414, which may in turn play the animation and delivercontrol signals 418 tolight systems 102 in an environment. - Referring to FIG. 5, an embodiment of a
configuration file 500 is depicted, showing certain elements of configuration information that can be stored for alight system 102 or other system. Thus, theconfiguration file 500 can store anidentifier 502 for eachlight system 102, as well as theposition 508 of that light system in a desired coordinate or mapping system for the environment 100 (which may be (x,y,z) coordinates, polar coordinates, (x,y) coordinates, or the like). Theposition 508 and other information may be time-dependent, so theconfiguration file 500 can include an element oftime 504. Theconfiguration file 500 can also store information about theposition 510 that is lit by thelight system 102. That information can consist of a set of coordinates, or it may be an identified surface, polygon, object, or other item in the environment. Theconfiguration file 500 can also store information about the available degrees of freedom for use of thelight system 102, such as available colors in acolor range 512, available intensities in anintensity range 514, or the like. Theconfiguration file 500 can also include information about other systems in the environment that are controlled by the control systems disclosed herein, information about the characteristics ofsurfaces 107 in the environment, and the like. Thus, theconfiguration file 500 can map a set oflight systems 102 to the conditions that they are capable of generating in anenvironment 100. - In an embodiment, configuration information such as the
configuration file 500 may be generated using a program executed on a processor. Referring to FIG. 6, the program may run on acomputer 600 with agraphical user interface 612 where a representation of anenvironment 602 can be displayed, showinglight systems 102, litsurfaces 107 or other elements in a graphical format. The interface may include arepresentation 602 of a room for example. Representations of lights, lighted surfaces or other systems may then be presented in theinterface 612 and locations can be assigned to the system. In an embodiment, position coordinates or a position map may represent a system, such as a light system. A position map may also be generated for the representation of a lighted surface for example. FIG. 6 illustrates a room withlight systems 102. - The
representation 602 can also be used to simplify generation of effects. For example, a set of stored effects can be represented byicons 610 on thescreen 612. An explosion icon can be selected with a cursor or mouse, which may prompt the user to click on a starting and ending point for the explosion in the coordinate system. By locating a vector in the representation, the user can cause an explosion to be initiated in the upper corner of theroom 602 and a wave of light and or sound may propagate through the environment. With all of thelight systems 102 in predetermined positions, as identified in theconfiguration file 500, the representation of the explosion can be played in the room by the light system and or another system such as a sound system. - In use, a control system such as used herein can be used to provide information to a user or programmer from the
light systems 102 in response to or in coordination with the information being provided to the user of thecomputer 600. One example of how this can be provided is in conjunction with the user generating a computer animation on thecomputer 600. Thelight system 102 may be used to create one or more light effects in response todisplays 612 on thecomputer 600. The lighting effects, or illumination effects, can produce a vast variety of effects including color-changing effects; stroboscopic effects; flashing effects; coordinated lighting effects; lighting effects coordinated with other media such as video or audio; color wash where the color changes in hue, saturation or intensity over a period of time; creating an ambient color; color fading; effects that simulate movement such as a color chasing rainbow, a flare streaking across a room, a sun rising, a plume from an explosion, other moving effects; and many other effects. The effects that can be generated are nearly limitless. Light and color continually surround the user, and controlling or changing the illumination or color in a space can change emotions, create atmosphere, provide enhancement of a material or object, or create other pleasing and or useful effects. The user of thecomputer 600 can observe the effects while modifying them on thedisplay 612, thus enabling a feedback loop that allows the user to conveniently modify effects. - FIG. 7 illustrates how the light from a given
light system 102 may be displayed on a surface. Alight system 102, sound system, or other system may project onto a surface. In the case of alight system 102, this may be anarea 702 that is illuminated by thelight system 102. Thelight system 102, or other system, may also move, so thearea 107 may move as well. In the case of a sound system, this may be the area where the user desires the sound to emanate from. - In an embodiment, the information generated to form the image or representation may be communicated to a
light system 102 or plurality oflight systems 102. The information may be sent to lighting systems as generated in a configuration file. For example, the image may represent an explosion that begins in the upper right hand corner of a room and the explosion may propagate through the room. As the image propagates through its calculated space, control signals can be communicated to lighting systems in the corresponding space. The communication signal may cause the lighting system to generate light of a given hue, saturation and intensity when the image is passing through the lighted space the lighting systems projects onto. An embodiment of the invention projects the image through a lighting system. The image may also be projected through a computer screen or other screen or projection device. In an embodiment, a screen may be used to visualize the image prior or during the playback of the image on a lighting system. In an embodiment, sound or other effects may be correlated with the lighting effects. For example, the peak intensity of a light wave propagating through a space may be just ahead of a sound wave. As a result, the light wave may pass through a room followed by a sound wave. The light wave may be played back on a lighting system and the sound wave may be played back on a sound system. This coordination can create effects that appear to be passing through a room or they can create various other effects. - Referring to FIG. 6, an effect can propagate through a virtual environment that is represented in 3D on the
display screen 612 of thecomputer 600. In embodiments, the effect can be modeled as a vector or plane moving through space over time. Thus, alllight systems 102 that are located on the plane of the effect in the real world environment can be controlled to generate a certain type of illumination when the effect plane propagates through the light system plane. This can be modeled in the virtual environment of the display screen, so that a developer can drag a plane through a series of positions that vary over time. For example, an effect plane 618 can move with thevector 608 through the virtual environment. When the effect plan 618 reaches apolygon 614, the polygon can be highlighted in a color selected from thecolor palette 604. Alight system 102 positioned on a real world object that corresponds to the polygon can then illuminate in the same color in the real world environment. Of course, the polygon could be any configuration of light systems on any object, plane, surface, wall, or the like, so the range of 3D effects that can be created is unlimited. - In an embodiment, the image information may be communicated from a central controller. The information may be altered before a lighting system responds to the information. For example, the image information may be directed to a position within a position map. All of the information directed at a position map may be collected prior to sending the information to a lighting system. This may be accomplished every time the image is refreshed or every time this section of the image is refreshed or at other times. In an embodiment, an algorithm may be performed on information that is collected. The algorithm may average the information, calculate and select the maximum information, calculate and select the minimum information, calculate and select the first quartile of the information, calculate and select the third quartile of the information, calculate and select the most used information calculate and select the integral of the information or perform another calculation on the information. This step may be completed to level the effect of the lighting system in response to information received. For example, the information in one refresh cycle may change the information in the map several times and the effect may be viewed best when the projected light takes on one value in a given refresh cycle.
- In an embodiment, the information communicated to a lighting system may be altered before a lighting system responds to the information. The information format may change prior to the communication for example. The information may be communicated from a computer through a USB port or other communication port and the format of the information may be changed to a lighting protocol such as DMX when the information is communicated to the lighting system. In an embodiment, the information or control signals may be communicated to a lighting system or other system through a communications port of a computer, portable computer, notebook computer, personal digital assistant or other system. The information or control signals may also be stored in memory, electronic or otherwise, to be retrieved at a later time. Systems such the iPlayer and SmartJack systems manufactured and sold by Color Kinetics Incorporated can be used to communicate and or store lighting control signals.
- In an embodiment, several systems may be associated with position maps and the several systems may a share position map or the systems may reside in independent position areas. For example, the position of a lighted surface from a first lighting system may intersect with a lighted surface from a second lighting system. The two systems may still respond to information communicated to the either of the lighting systems. In an embodiment, the interaction of two lighting systems may also be controlled. An algorithm, function or other technique may be used to change the lighting effects of one or more of the lighting systems in a interactive space. For example, if the interactive space is greater than half of the non-interactive space from a lighting system, the lighting system's hue, saturation or brightness may be modified to compensate the interactive area. This may be used to adjust the overall appearance of the interactive area or an adjacent area for example.
- Control signals generated using methods and or systems according to the principles of the present invention can be used to produce a vast variety of effects. Imagine a fire or explosion effect that one wishes to have move across a wall or room. It starts at one end of the room as a white flash that quickly moves out followed by a highbrightness yellow wave whose intensity varies as it moves through the room. When generating a control signal according to the principles of the present invention, a lighting designer does not have to be concerned with the lights in the room and the timing and generation of each light system's lighting effects. Rather the designer only needs to be concerned with the relative position or actual position of those lights in the room. The designer can lay out the lighting in a room and then associate the lights in the room with graphical information, such as pixel information, as described above. The designer can program the fire or explosion effect on a computer, using Flash5 for example, and the information can be communicated to the
light systems 102 in an environment. The position of the lights in the environment may be considered as well as thesurfaces 107 orareas 702 that are going to be lit. - In an embodiment, the lighting effects could also be coupled to sound that will add to and reinforce the lighting effects. An example is a ‘red alert’ sequence where a ‘whoop whoop’ siren-like effect is coupled with the entire room pulsing red in concert with the sound. One stimulus reinforces the other. Sounds and movement of an earthquake using low frequency sound and flickering lights is another example of coordinating these effects. Movement of light and sound can be used to indicate direction.
- In an embodiment the lights are represented in a two-dimensional or plan view. This allows representation of the lights in a plane where the lights can be associated with various pixels. Standard computer graphics techniques can then be used for effects. Animation tweening and even standard tools may be used to create lighting effects. Macromedia Flash works with relatively low-resolution graphics for creating animations on the web. Flash uses simple vector graphics to easily create animations. The vector representation is efficient for streaming applications such as on the World Wide Web for sending animations over the net. The same technology can be used to create animations that can be used to derive lighting commands by mapping the pixel information or vector information to vectors or pixels that correspond to positions of
light systems 102 within a coordinate system for anenvironment 100. - For example, an animation window of a
computer 600 can represent a room or other environment of the lights. Pixels in that window can correspond to lights within the room or a low-resolution averaged image can be created from the higher resolution image. In this way lights in the room can be activated when a corresponding pixel or neighborhood of pixels turn on. Because LED-based lighting technology can create any color on demand using digital control information, see U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,016,038, 6,150,774, and 6,166,496, the lights can faithfully recreate the colors in the original image. - Some examples of effects that could be generated using systems and methods according to the principles of the invention include, but are not limited to, explosions, colors, underwater effects, turbulence, color variation, fire, missiles, chases, rotation of a room, shape motion, tinkerbell-like shapes, lights moving in a room, and many others. Any of the effects can be specified with parameters, such as frequencies, wavelengths, wave widths, peak-to-peak measurements, velocities, inertia, friction, speed, width, spin, vectors, and the like. Any of these can be coupled with other effects, such as sound.
- In computer graphics, anti-aliasing is a technique for removing staircase effects in imagery where edges are drawn and resolution is limited. This effect can be seen on television when a narrow striped pattern is shown. The edges appear to crawl like ants as the lines approach the horizontal. In a similar fashion, the lighting can be controlled in such a way as to provide a smoother transition during effect motion. The effect parameters such as wave width, amplitude, phase or frequency can be modified to provide better effects.
- For example, referring to FIG. 8, a schematic diagram800 has circles that represent a
single light 804 over time. For an effect to ‘traverse’ this light, it might simply have a step function that causes the light to pulse as the wave passes through the light. However, without the notion of width, the effect might be indiscernible. The effect preferably has width. If however, the effect on the light was simply a step function that turned on for a period of time, then might appear to be a harsh transition, which may be desirable in some cases but for effects that move over time (i.e. have some velocity associated with them) then this would not normally be the case. - The
wave 802 shown in FIG. 8 has a shape that corresponds to the change. In essence it is a visual convolution of thewave 802 as it propagates through a space. So as a wave, such as from an explosion, moves past points in space, those points rise in intensity from zero, and can even have associated changes in hue or saturation, which gives a much more realistic effect of the motion of the effect. At some point, as the number and density of lights increases, the room then becomes an extension of the screen and provides large sparse pixels. Even with a relatively small number oflight systems 102 the effect eventually can serve as a display similar to a large screen display. - Effects can have associated motion and direction, i.e. a velocity. Even other physical parameters can be described to give physical parameters such as friction, inertia, and momentum. Even more than that, the effect can have a specific trajectory. In an embodiment, each light may have a representation that gives attributes of the light. This can take the form of 2D position, for example. A
light system 102 can have all various degrees of freedom assigned (e.g., xyz-rpy), or any combination. - The techniques listed here are not limited to lighting. Control signals can be propagated through other devices based on their positions, such as special effects devices such as pyrotechnics, smell-generating devices, fog machines, bubble machines, moving mechanisms, acoustic devices, acoustic effects that move in space, or other systems.
- An embodiment of the present invention is a method of automatically capturing the position of the
light systems 102 within an environment. An imaging device may be used as a means of capturing the position of the light. A camera, connected to a computing device, can capture the image for analysis can calculation of the position of the light. FIG. 9 depicts a flow diagram 900 that depicts a series of steps that may be used to accomplish this method. First, at astep 902, the environment to be mapped may be darkened by reducing ambient light. Next, at astep 904, control signals can be sent to eachlight system 102, commanding thelight system 102 to turn on and off in turn. Simultaneously, the camera can capture an image during each “on” time at astep 906. Next, at astep 908, the image is analyzed to locate the position of the “on”light system 102. At a step 910 a centroid can be extracted. Because no other light is present when the particularlight system 102 is on, there is little issue with other artifacts to filter and remove from the image. Next, at astep 912, the centroid position of thelight system 102 is stored and the system generates a table oflight systems 102 and centroid positions. This data can be used to populate a configuration file, such as that depicted in connection with FIG. 5. In sum, eachlight system 102; in turn, is activated, and the centroid measurement determined. This is done for all of thelight systems 102. An image thus gives a position of the light system in a plane, such as with (x,y) coordinates. - Where a 3D position is desired a second image may be captured to triangulate the position of the light in another coordinate dimension. This is the stereo problem. In the same way human eyes determine depth through the correspondence and disparity between the images provided by each eye, a second set of images may be taken to provide the correspondence. The camera is either duplicated at a known position relative to the first camera or the first camera is moved a fixed distance and direction. This movement or difference in position establishes the baseline for the two images and allows derivation of a third coordinate (e.g., (x,y,z)) for the
light system 102. - Another embodiment of the invention is depicted in FIG. 10, which contains a flow diagram1000 with steps for generating a control signal. First, at a step 1002 a user can access a graphical user interface, such as the
display 612 depicted in FIG. 6. Next, at astep 1003, the user can generate an image on the display, such as using a graphics program or similar facility. The image can be a representation of an environment, such as a room, wall, building, surface, object, or the like, in whichlight systems 102 are disposed. It is assumed in connection with FIG. 10 that the configuration of thelight systems 102 in the environment is known and stored, such as in a table orconfiguration file 500. Next, at astep 1004, a user can select an effect, such as from a menu of effects. In an embodiment, the effect may be a color selected from a color palette. The color might be a color temperature of white. The effect might be another effect, such as described herein. In an embodiment, generating theimage 1003 may be accomplished through a program executed on a processor. The image may then be displayed on a computer screen. Once a color is selected from the palette at thestep 1004, a user may select a portion of the image at astep 1008. This may be accomplished by using a cursor on the screen in a graphical user interface where the cursor is positioned over the desired portion of the image and then the portion is selected with a mouse. Following the selection of a portion of the image, the information from that portion can be converted to lighting control signals at astep 1010. This may involve changing the format of the bit stream or converting the information into other information. The information that made the image may be segmented into several colors such as red, green, and blue. The information may also be communicated to a lighting system in, for example, segmented red, green, and blue signals. The signal may also be communicated to the lighting system as a composite signal at astep 1012. This technique can be useful for changing the color of a lighting system. For example, a color palette may be presented in a graphical user interface and the palette may represent millions of different colors. A user may want to change the lighting in a room or other area to a deep blue. To accomplish her task, the user can select the color from the screen using a mouse and the lighting in the room changes to match the color of the portion of the screen she selected. Generally, the information on a computer screen is presented in small pixels of red, green and blue. LED systems, such as those found in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,016,038, 6,150,774 and 6,166,496, may include red, green and blue lighting elements as well. The conversion process from the information on the screen to control signals may be a format change such that the lighting system understands the commands. However, in an embodiment, the information or the level of the separate lighting elements may be the same as the information used to generate the pixel information. This provides for an accurate duplication of the pixel information in the lighting system. - Using the techniques described herein, including techniques for determining positions of light systems in environments, techniques for modeling effects in environments (including time- and geometry-based effects), and techniques for mapping light system environments to virtual environments, it is possible to model an unlimited range of effects in an unlimited range of environments. Effects need not be limited to those that can be created on a square or rectangular display. Instead, light systems can be disposed in a wide range of lines, strings, curves, polygons, cones, cylinders, cubes, spheres, hemispheres, non-linear configurations, clouds, and arbitrary shapes and configurations, then modeled in a virtual environment that captures their positions in selected coordinate dimensions. Thus, light systems can be disposed in or on the interior or exterior of any environment, such as a room, building, home, wall, object, product, retail store, vehicle, ship, airplane, pool, spa, hospital, operating room, or other location.
- In embodiments, the light system may be associated with code for the computer application, so that the computer application code is modified or created to control the light system. For example, object-oriented programming techniques can be used to attach attributes to objects in the computer code, and the attributes can be used to govern behavior of the light system. Object oriented techniques are known in the field, and can be found in texts such as “Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming” by Timothy Budd, the entire disclosure of which is herein incorporated by reference. It should be understood that other programming techniques may also be used to direct lighting systems to illuminate in coordination with computer applications, object oriented programming being one of a variety of programming techniques that would be understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to facilitate the methods and systems described herein.
- In an embodiment, a developer can attach the light system inputs to objects in the computer application. For example, the developer may have an abstraction of a
light system 102 that is added to the code construction, or object, of an application object. An object may consist of various attributes, such as position, velocity, color, intensity, or other values. A developer can add light as an instance in the object in the code of a computer application. For example, the object could be vector in an object-oriented computer animation program or solid modeling program, with attributes, such as direction and velocity. Alight system 102 can be added as an instance of the object of the computer application, and the light system can have attributes, such as intensity, color, and various effects. Thus, when events occur in the computer application that call on the object of the vector, a thread running through the program can draw code to serve as an input to the processor of the light system. The light can accurately represent geometry, placement, spatial location, represent a value of the attribute or trait, or provide indication of other elements or objects. - Referring to FIG. 12, a
flow chart 1200 provides steps for a method of providing for coordinated illumination. At thestep 1202, the programmer codes an object for a computer application, using, for example, object-oriented programming techniques. At astep 1204, the programming creates instances for each of the objects in the application. At astep 1208, the programmer adds light as an instance to one or more objects of the application. At astep 1210, the programmer provides for a thread, running through the application code. At astep 1212, the programmer provides for the thread to draw lighting system input code from the objects that have light as an instance. At a step 1214, the input signal drawn from the thread at thestep 1212 is provided to the light system, so that the lighting system responds to code drawn from the computer application. - Using such object-oriented light input to the
light system 102 from code for a computer application, various lighting effects can be associated in the real world environment with the virtual world objects of a computer application. For example, in animation of an effect such as explosion of a polygon, a light effect can be attached with the explosion of the polygon, such as sound, flashing, motion, vibration and other temporal effects. Further, thelight system 102 could include other effects devices including sound producing devices, motion producing devices, fog machines, rain machines or other devices which could also produce indications related to that object. - Referring to FIG. 13, a flow diagram1300 depicts steps for coordinated illumination between a representation on virtual environment of a computer screen and a
light system 102 or set oflight systems 102 in a real environment. In embodiments, program code for control of thelight system 102 has a separate thread running on the machine that provides its control signals. At astep 1302 the program initiates the thread. At astep 1304 the thread as often as possible runs through a list of virtual lights, namely, objects in the program code that represent lights in the virtual environment. At astep 1308 the thread does three-dimensional math to determine which real-world light systems 102 in the environment are in proximity to a reference point in the real world (e.g., a selected surface 107) that is projected as the reference point of the coordinate system of objects in the virtual environment of the computer representation. Thus, the (0,0,0) position can be a location in a real environment and a point on the screen in the display of the computer application (for instance the center of the display. At astep 1310, the code maps the virtual environment to the real world environment, including thelight systems 102, so that events happening outside the computer screen are similar in relation to the reference point as are virtual objects and events to a reference point on the computer screen. - At a
step 1312, the host of the method may provide an interface for mapping. The mapping function may be done with a function, e.g., “project-all-lights,” as described in Directlight API described below and in Appendix A, that maps real world lights using a simple user interface, such as drag and drop interface. The placement of the lights may not be as important as the surface the lights are directed towards. It may be this surface that reflects the illumination or lights back to the environment and as a result it may be this surface that is the most important for the mapping program. The mapping program may map these surfaces rather than the light system locations or it may also map both the locations of the light systems and the light on the surface. - A system for providing the code for coordinated illumination may be any suitable computer capable of allowing programming, including a processor, an operating system, and memory, such as a database, for storing files for execution.
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real light 102 may have attributes that are stored in a configuration file. An example of a structure for a configuration file is depicted in FIG. 5. In embodiments, the configuration file may include various data, such as a light number, a position of each light, the position or direction of light output, the gamma (brightness) of the light, an indicator number for one or more attributes, and various other attributes. By changing the coordinates in the configuration file, the real world lights can be mapped to the virtual world represented on the screen in a way that allows them to reflect what is happening in the virtual environment. The developer can thus create time-based effects, such as an explosion. There can then be a library of effects in the code that can be attached to various application attributes. Examples include explosions, rainbows, color chases, fades in and out, etc. The developer attaches the effects to virtual objects in the application. For example, when an explosion is done, the light goes off in the display, reflecting the destruction of the object that is associated with the light in the configuration file. - To simplify the configuration file, various techniques can be used. In embodiments, hemispherical cameras, sequenced in turn, can be used as a baseline with scaling factors to triangulate the lights and automatically generate a configuration file without ever having to measure where the lights are. In embodiments, the configuration file can be typed in, or can be put into a graphical user interface that can be used to drag and drop light sources onto a representation of an environment. The developer can create a configuration file that matches the fixtures with true placement in a real environment. For example, once the lighting elements are dragged and dropped in the environment, the program can associate the virtual lights in the program with the real lights in the environment. An example of a light authoring program to aid in the configuration of lighting is included in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/616,214 “Systems and Methods for Authoring Lighting Sequences.” Color Kinetics Inc. also offers a suitable authoring and configuration program called “ColorPlay.”
- Further details as to the implementation of the code can be found in the Directlight API document attached hereto as Appendix A. Directlight API is a programmer's interface that allows a programmer to incorporate lighting effects into a program. Directlight API is attached in Appendix A and the disclosure incorporated by reference herein. Object oriented programming is just one example of a programming technique used to incorporate lighting effects. Lighting effects could be incorporated into any programming language or method of programming. In object oriented programming, the programmer is often simulating a 3D space.
- In the above examples, lights were used to indicate the position of objects which produce the expected light or have light attached to them. There are many other ways in which light can be used. The lights in the light system can be used for a variety of purposes, such as to indicate events in a computer application (such as a game), or to indicate levels or attributes of objects.
- Simulation types of computer applications are often 3D rendered and have objects with attributes as well as events. A programmer can code events into the application for a simulation, such as a simulation of a real world environment. A programmer can also code attributes or objects in the simulation. Thus, a program can track events and attributes, such as explosions, bullets, prices, product features, health, other people, patterns of light, and the like. The code can then map from the virtual world to the real world. In embodiments, at an optional step, the system can add to the virtual world with real world data, such as from sensors or input devices. Then the system can control real and virtual world objects in coordination with each other. Also, by using the light system as an indicator, it is possible to give information through the light system that aids a person in the real world environment.
- Architectural visualization, mechanical engineering models, and other solid modeling environments are encompassed herein as embodiments. In these virtual environments lighting is often relevant both in a virtual environment and in a solid model real world visualization environment. The user can thus position and control a
light system 102 the illuminates a real world sold model to illuminate the real world solid model in correspondence to illumination conditions that are created in the virtual world modeling environment. Scale physical models in a room of lights can be modeled for lighting during the course of a day or year or during different seasons for example, possibly to detect previously unknown interaction with the light and various building surfaces. Another example would be to construct a replica of a city or portion of a city in a room with a lighting system such as those discussed above. The model could then be analyzed for color changes over a period of time, shadowing, or other lighting effects. In an embodiment, this technique could be used for landscape design. In an embodiment, the lighting system is used to model the interior space of a room, building, or other piece of architecture. For example, an interior designer may want to project the colors of the room, or fabric or objects in the room with colors representing various times of the day, year, or season. In an embodiment, a lighting system is used in a store near a paint section to allow for simulation of lighting conditions on paint chips for visualization of paint colors under various conditions. These types of real world modeling applications can enable detection of potential design flaws, such as reflective buildings reflecting sunlight in the eyes of drivers during certain times of the year. Further, the three-dimensional visualization may allow for more rapid recognition of the aesthetics of the design by human beings, than by more complex computer modeling. - Solid modeling programs can have virtual lights. One can light a model in the virtual environment while simultaneously lighting a real world model the same way. For example, one can model environmental conditions of the model and recreate them in the real world modeling environment outside the virtual environment. For example, one can model a house or other building and show how it would appear in any daylight environment. A hobbyist could also model lighting for a model train set (for instance based on pictures of an actual train) and translate that lighting into the illumination for the room wherein the model train exists. Therefore the model train may not only be a physical representation of an actual train, but may even appear as that train appeared at a particular time. A civil engineering project could also be assembled as a model and then a lighting system according to the principles of the invention could be used to simulate the lighting conditions over the period of the day. This simulation could be used to generate lighting conditions, shadows, color effects or other effects. This technique could also be used in Film/Theatrical modeling or could be used to generate special effects in filmmaking. Such a system could also be used by a homeowner, for instance by selecting what they want their dwelling to look like from the outside and having lights be selected to produce that look. This is a possibility for safety when the owner is away. Alternatively, the system could work in reverse where the owner turns on the lights in their house and a computer provides the appearance of the house from various different directions and distances.
- Although the above examples discuss modeling for architecture, one of skill in the art would understand that any device, object, or structure where the effect of light on that device, object, or structure can be treated similarly.
- Medical or other job simulation could also be performed. A lighting system according to the principles of the present invention may be used to simulate the lighting conditions during a medical procedure. This may involve creating an operating room setting or other environment such as an auto accident at night, with specific lighting conditions. For example, the lighting on highways is generally high-pressure sodium lamps which produce nearly monochromatic yellow light and as a result objects and fluids may appear to be a non-normal color. Parking lots generally use metal halide lighting systems and produce a broad spectrum light that has spectral gaps. Any of these environments could be simulated using a system according to the principles of the invention. These simulators could be used to train emergency personnel how to react in situations lit in different ways. They could also be used to simulate conditions under which any job would need to be performed. For instance, the light that will be experienced by an astronaut repairing an orbiting satellite can be simulated on earth in a simulation chamber.
- Lights can also be used to simulate travel in otherwise inaccessible areas such as the light that would be received traveling through space or viewing astronomical phenomena, or lights could be used as a three dimensional projection of an otherwise unviewable object. For instance, a lighting system attached to a computing device could provide a three dimensional view from the inside of a molecular model. Temporal Function or other mathematical concepts could also be visualized.
- Another aspect of the present invention is methods and systems for generating lighting effects through the use of wireless communications. Various embodiments provide a plurality of light systems adapted to receive wireless communications and to generate lighting effects in response to the communications. In an embodiment, the plurality of light systems may be arranged in an environment and coordinated light effects may be generated within the plurality of light systems. For example, the light systems may be arranged in an audience and wireless communication signals may be sent to the light systems. The light systems may respond by generating certain lighting effects. With a system according to the principles of the present invention, coordinated lighting effects may be generated in a stadium. In an embodiment, the stadium may be a football stadium, Olympic stadium, soccer stadium, baseball stadium, track and field stadium, indoor stadium, and outdoor stadium. The effects may appear as a static or dynamic image for example. In an embodiment, the images produced may appear to be an Olympic ring pattern, a logo, a team logo, a trademark, a team trademark, an advertisement or other image. In another embodiment, the light systems may be arranged along a parade route or in an amusement park or other environment. The lighting effects may be generated for display advertisement, information or for many other reasons. For example, a user may have a mobile light system in an amusement park and the light system may turn colors under certain conditions, such as, when in the presence of a character of the park or to indicate it is the users turn on a ride. There are many such examples of useful ways of using systems according to the principles of the present invention and these examples are provided as purely illustrative. An embodiment of the present invention is a method and system for controlling a plurality of light systems. The plurality of light systems may be assembled in an environment. For example, a plurality of light systems may be arranged to form an array of light systems and a wireless transmitter may communicate lighting control signals to each of the light systems in the plurality. As another example, the plurality of light systems may be arranged in a crowd of people and a transmitter may communicate lighting control signals to each of the light systems in the crowd. This may be used to generate a lighting effect in the crowd.
- Another aspect of the present invention is methods and systems for generating lighting effects. Various embodiments provide light systems that may initiate or execute a lighting effect at a particular time. In an embodiment, a plurality of such light systems may be arranged in an environment, such as an audience, and the plurality of light systems may be adapted to execute a lighting effect at a given time. A method such as this may be used to generate coordinated effects in the audience for example. If the light systems are properly arranged in an audience and programmed to generate a particular show at a particular time, the overall effect from the plurality may be a coordinated effect, image or the like. The image may appear static or dynamic and may generate flowing colors or images that may be interpreted. The programming of the timing of the lighting effect may be done during the manufacturer of the light system or at some time thereafter.
- Another aspect of the present invention is methods and systems for communicating with a light system. Various embodiments provide mobile light systems and systems and methods for communicating with them and generating lighting effects. In an embodiment, the light systems may be used in a game similar to “tag” where a transmitter is used to communicate with the light system and the light system changes the effect it produces in response to the transmitted signal. For example, to users may have light systems according to the principles of the present invention, at least one including a transmitter. The one with the transmitter may be trying to find and “tag” the other one. When the other one is identified, the transmitter may be used to communicate a signal and cause the light effect in the others light system to energize or otherwise change. In embodiments, the communication may be used to change the priority of the lighting effect in the recipients light system. For example, the recipient may receive a signal to generate a lighting effect and also program the lighting effect as the highest, or other, priority such that when the light system is turned on, or otherwise used, the first lighting effect is the new high priority lighting effect. This may be a useful method for transferring effects from one light system to another light system.
- An embodiment of the present invention may be a method for communicating control signals to light systems. The method may involve the steps of providing a lighting system, wherein the lighting system includes a wireless receiver, and transmitting control signals to the lighting system through the wireless receiver. Transmitting the control signals may involve transmitting directional or omni-directional wireless control signals. In an embodiment, a plurality of such light systems may be provided and a directional control signal may be communicated to a portion of the plurality of light systems to produce an effect, pattern, image or other light pattern. The light systems that receive the directional control signal may be instructed, through the control signal, to execute certain lighting programs or activate or deactivate the light system. In an embodiment, an omni-directional control signal may be communicated to a plurality of light systems. This control signal may be used to reset the plurality of light systems, initiate a lighting program, activate, deactivate, or generate some other effect in the light system.
- FIG. 14 illustrates a
mobile lighting system 1400 according to the principles of the present invention. Themobile lighting system 1400 may include alight system 1500 for example.Transmitter 1408 may be used to transmit wireless control signals 1410 in a particular direction (e.g. unidirectional), in a range of directions or in all directions (e.g. omni-directional). The control signals 1410 may be any wireless transmission such as radio frequency, infrared, microwave, electromagnetic, acoustic or other wireless transmission. Thelight system 1400 may include areceiver 1404 for receiving the control signals from thetransmitter 1408. FIG. 2 illustrates alighting system 1500 that may reside within thelight system 1400 according to the principles of the present invention. The system may include aprocessor 1504 for communicating LED control signals to one ormore LEDs 1508. In an embodiment, a plurality of different colored LEDs 1508R red, 1508G green, and 1508B blue LEDs may be included. Theprocessor 1504 may control the LEDs 1508R, 1508G, and 1508B independently. The system may also include amemory 1502 wherein LED control signals or other lighting programs are stored. While this particular light system has been described, the present invention should not be limited to such a light system as one skilled in the art would appreciate other light systems that could be used. While FIG. 2 illustrates theprocessor 1504 as being a microprocessor, another embodiment may include a light system without a microprocessor. One skilled in the art would appreciate there are many circuit designs that may be adapted to accomplish the functions as described herein. - FIG. 16 illustrates a system according to the principles of the present invention. FIG. 16 illustrates stadium stands1604 where a plurality people may be sitting for an event. Many of the people in the
stands 1604 may have alight systems 1400. In an embodiment, a transmitter 1410 may communicate a control signals 1602 to thelight system 1400 such that apattern 1608 appears in the audience. Although FIG. 16 illustrates thepattern 1608 as a smiley face, it should be understood that there are many patterns and effects that could be generated by a system according to the principles of the present invention. For example, adirectional control signal 1602 could be moved through the audience to produce colored stripes or a color wave with dynamic lighting effects. In an embodiment, thelight systems 1400 may be activated while thelight system 1400 is receiving thecontrol signal 1602 and deactivate the light system when the signal is no longer received. Thelight system 1400 may also continue to display a lighting effect for a period and slowly fade with time or provide another effect. Some amount of persistence or delay may be used to allow smooth refreshing or to provide blending of effects for example. In another embodiment, thecontrol signal 1602 may initiate a lighting program that plays for a period of time or continues to play until another signal is received. In an embodiment, thecontrol signals 1602 may be sent in a pattern or representative of an image. The control signals 1602 may also be communicated in a fashion that generates a moving image. In an embodiment, the image may represent a video projection image such that a video could be played through the plurality of light systems in the audience. - In an embodiment, a
transmitter 1408 may communicatecontrol signals 1602 to the entire audience in a concert. This signal may be used to reset all of the receiving light systems to a predetermined mode or lighting program for example. In an embodiment, an omni-directional transmission may be used to accomplish this effect. This effect may be used to generate lighting effects through out the audience or cause all of the light systems to deactivate for example. A plurality of light systems may receive the resetting signal and this signal may cause the individual light systems in the plurality of light systems to generate lighting effects randomly. For example, each light system may be includememory 1502 where a plurality of lighting programs are stored and theprocessor 1504 may randomly, or otherwise, recall one of the plurality of lighting programs from memory upon receipt of thecontrol signal 1602. This may cause many effects to be generated in the audience. - In an embodiment, the
light system 1400 may be provided with stored programs (e.g. color changing control signals with respect to time) or static states (e.g. blue, red, purple control signals in a table). A plurality oflight systems 1400 may be provided where eachlight system 1400 may be arranged to receive wireless transmissions or be arranged to begin execution of a program or state upon some other activation signal. In an embodiment, each of the plurality oflight systems 1400 may be arranged to interpret received signals in a different way. For example, the light systems may be arranged in astadium 1604 in a particular order such that upon activation the light systems generate apattern 1608. Some of thelight systems 1400 may display blue and others yellow such that a pattern of rings appears in the audience for example. To simplify manufacturing of suchlight systems 1400, they may all be constructed identically and be programmed, through an IR port, for example, at the time they are handed to the people in the audience or placed at the seats. This technique would be useful in generating audience effects similar to the imaging and graphics that are displayed using place cards held overhead during large events like the Olympics or World Cup. One of the advantages of using a system according to the principles of the present invention is the dynamic effect that can be generated. Such a system could be used for generating pleasing effects such as scrolling logos, display of preprogrammed images, or other effects. Each light system held by a person becomes a ‘pixel’ that forms the element of an image. - In an embodiment, the
light system 1400 may be energized, or specific effects, programs or the like may be initiated through the use of an internal timer. Each light system in a plurality may include a real time clock. The clock may be set at the factory when the device is manufactured and the clock may track time. At a given time (e.g. Aug. 13, 2004 during opening ceremonies at the Olympics in Greece) the light systems may be set to activate and/or run a program or generate an effect as described herein. In an embodiment, a light system with a real time clock allows many light systems to be synchronized to a common time base (e.g. GMT) so that if the timing of an event is carefully scheduled all of the light systems become coordinated with the events. In combination and specific placement (e.g. section of a stadium) the light systems can be used to generate coordinated color changing effects, graphics, images and other coordinated effects. - A
light system 1400 may also be integrated into the seating or the field of a stadium or other area. In an embodiment, thelight systems 1400 may be integrated into the seating and the light systems may be wired to a remote control device to enable wired remote controlling of thelight systems 1400. - In an embodiment a combination of methods, as described herein, may used to initiate audience lighting effects. For example, the time activation method could be used to initiate play in all of the
light systems 1400 and also activate the IR receiver. The entire stadium could color wash from one color to the next and then turn a static color. Then a directional IR transmission may be used to change the lighting effects in a section of the stadium. The IR transmission may use a raster or other scan pattern thelight systems 1400 could respond like a display. Thelight systems 1400 could include a short program (e.g. color wash) and a table with the video colors. This could also be used to limit the number of IR receivers needed in a given installation. This would also make the IR transmitter easier to deploy because it could be located on a light pole or another pole and it would not have to rotate. You could also have transmitters mounted on poles or other structures on both sides of the stadium to generate lighting effects in different sections of the audience. - In an embodiment, a
light system 1400 may have background/foreground capabilities. In this mode, the light system may start in a static color or be executing a dynamic light show, for example, as its background mode. In an embodiment, the background mode may be switched to another mode, foreground mode, in response to external signals. This may be a useful technique for changing the colors of a plurality of light systems in an audience. All of the light systems may be displaying a color or pattern, running in background mode, and then some or all of the light systems could be changed to a second mode, foreground mode, by communicating with the desired light systems. In an embodiment, the light system may change modes, run a different program or select new LED control signals to play upon receipt of an external signal and then revert back to the background program when the external signal is removed or de-energized. In an embodiment, the light system may also have some persistence to allow the light system to remain in the foreground or background mode for a period of time upon deactivation or activation of the external signal. - There are many effects that may be generated in a plurality of light systems according to the principles of the present invention. For example, many
light systems 1400 may be arranged in an audience at a stadium or event and thelight systems 1400 may produce color changing lighting effects. Some examples of color effects may be a Color Wave (e.g. a wave of color can move around a stadium or theatre, clock wise, counter clock wise, up and down the audience), a Color Wash (e.g. the entire stadium can change color simultaneously), Sound Synchronization (e.g. saturation, intensity or hue can all change in synch with musical or audio input or based on event timing during the ceremonies), Icons (e.g. geometries associated with icons or simple patterns can be displayed. This could include Olympic rings, advertising, alphanumerics and the like) or other patterns or effects. - FIG. 17 illustrates a stadium lighting effects system according to the principles of the present invention. The
transmitter 1408 in this embodiment is a light tower or light house. As depicted in the figure, the lighthouse may transmit lighting control signals to thelight systems 1400 in the audience using directional communication signals 1602. The lighthouse may rotate the transmission of the communication signals 1602 throughout the entire audience or through a section of the audience. In an embodiment, the beam ofcommunication signals 1602 may be broken up into more than one communication signal. For example, thebeam 1602 may be broken up into segments 1602A, 1602B, and 1602C. These segments may differ in there content to provide various effects in the audience. For example, this technique could be used to produce stripes or other segmented effects. While FIG. 14 illustrates the communication signal is directional, it should be understood that the communication signals may be sent in many directions. For example, a spherical or cylindrical transmitter may be used to generate communication signals in all directions. In an embodiment, the signals may be segmented to provide both horizontal and vertical segmentation of the signals. This could be used to provide “pixel” control of the plurality oflight systems 1400. - In an embodiment, a
transmitter 1408 may transmit control signals toindividual light systems 1400 or groups oflight systems 1400. Thetransmitter 1408 may be scanning, non-scanning, narrow beam, isotropic or otherwise arranged to communicate the control signals. The control signals may be used to initiate a program in alight system 1400 or the control signals may be used to directly control light effect. For example, the control signal may include information that thelight system 1400 interprets to produce a particular color (e.g. it receives information, thelight system 1400 uses a look-up table to determine the desired color, and then changes to the color, or it receives data that is used to program registers or the like to set the values of the lighting element(s)). - FIG. 18 illustrates a lighting effect generated in a crowd according to the principles of the present invention. The crowd may be assembled in the stands of a
stadium 1604 and the lighting effect may vary throughout the crowd. For example, the illustration of FIG. 18 shows thelight systems 1400 in the area ofsection 1702 may be a first color, such as blue; while the color ofsection 1703 may be green and thesection 1704 may be red. While the delineations between the colors are depicted as sharp lines, it should be understood that this is for illustration purposes only as the area between two colors may be blended or otherwise controlled. In an embodiment, the lighting effects may appear to move through the stadium. For example, thesections - A transmitter according to the principles of the present invention may take many forms. In an embodiment, the transmitter may be a broadcasting device that transmits information to the
light systems 1400. It can be scanning or non-scanning, narrow beam, isotropic, or other configuration. For example, it may be a bright cylindrical, almost hemispheric, IR light source with isotropic transmission properties. In another embodiment it may be a rotating housing with a vertically oriented narrow beam that continuously scans the stadium. This design can give horizontal resolution limited only by the motion of the device. This design may include a slip ring to pass information from the drive signal to the IR sources. In another embodiment, the slip ring may be avoided if the communication is done optically. Motion control may be used to move the transmission beam. In an embodiment, a frame pulse would be useful to align image with stadium. The system could include an integral compass to give heading so angular position placement is unimportant. The transmitter may be a hemispherical imager in an embodiment. This may be used to generate many pixels out of thelight systems 1400. This may provide a ‘radar-like’ sweep. - A
light system 1400 according to the principles of the present invention may receive data from a transmitter in a predetermined format. For example, the data may have a zero byte and then a non-zero value triplet of RGB values, perhaps just four bytes worth. In an embodiment, the number of available colors may be three color times eight bits for each color or 16.7 million colors. In another embodiment, the number of available colors may be reduced to increase the data rate. This is just an example of data coding schemes and one skilled in the art would know of many variations that are encompassed by the present invention. - In an embodiment, mapping techniques; as described herein, may be used to generate a map of the environment where the
light systems 1400 are placed and this map may be used when generating the desired effects to be transmitted. - In an embodiment, a system according to the principles of the present invention may be used to play a game or run a contest. For example, as indicated above, a plurality of people may each have a light system and each of the plurality of light systems may include
memory 1502 wherein a plurality of lighting control programs are stored. An omnidirectional signal 1602 could be communicated such that at least a portion, if not all, of the light systems receive the signal. Each of the light systems may initiate a particular lighting program frommemory 1502 upon receipt of thecontrol signal 1602. The selection of the lighting program may be accomplished randomly for example. Following the receipt of thecontrol signal 1602 and the playback of the lighting program, each light system may display a particular color, lighting effect, or it may also be deactivated. The game or contest winner may, for example, be holding the light system that is flashing red, white and blue or the winner may simply be holding a light system that is activated. In an embodiment, lighting programs may also be loaded into thememory 1502 of the device through thecommunication port 1404. This method of loading the programs may be used to load a plurality of effects for a contest or other reason. - In an embodiment, a
light system 1400 may include atransmitter 1510. The transmitter may be directional to provide a user of the device to transmitcontrol signals 1602 to anotherlight system 1400. This may be useful for “zapping” someone else a color or lighting effect, provide a game of “tagging” another user or for any other purposes. The zapping or tagging may take place when a user directs thecontrol signals 1602 towards another users light system causing the other light system to respond. A system according to the present invention may also provide a “light bomb” where atransmitter 1510 is used to generate omni-directional signals 1602 and all of the light systems in the area respond. This may be useful in a game of tag where the person who is it goes around tagging others by using a directional signal and then throws a light bomb into an area by using omni-directional signals or signal. In another useful embodiment, a system may be arranged to allow the zapping of a users favorite color or lighting show. For example, a first user may generate a pleasing effect and want to transfer the effect to a friend. In an embodiment, the effect could be transferred from one device to another device by activating auser interface 1402. The activation may initiate communication between the two devices such that the effect is transferred. The second device may include a blocking feature such that incoming signals are not accepted such that the user of the second device may elect not to receive such signals. - Having thus described several illustrative embodiments of the invention, various alterations, modifications, and improvements will readily occur to those skilled in the art. Such alterations, modifications, and improvements are intended to be within the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the foregoing description is by way of example only, and is not intended as limiting. The invention is limited only as defined in the following claims and the equivalents thereto.
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